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Bowers & Wilkins, commonly known as B&W, is a British company that produces consumer and professional loudspeakers and headphones. [1] The company was founded in 1966 in Worthing , West Sussex , England. [ 2 ]
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Harman Kardon designed and produced some of the first high fidelity audio products in the 1950s. The company's first product was an FM tuner.. Early integrated receivers (with a tuner, preamplifier and power amplifier) were an attempt to create, improve and produce high fidelity performance in a single unit.
Modern home cinema systems typically augment the audio output from a DVD player or Blu-ray player with a multi-channel power amplifier and anywhere from two speakers and a stereo power amp (for stereo sound) to a 5.1 channel amplifier and five or more surround sound speaker cabinets (with a surround sound system).
Electro-Voice (EV) is an American manufacturer of audio equipment, including microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, focused on pro audio applications such as sound reinforcement and commercial and residential audiovisual installations.
Jensen is a consumer electronics brand with a history that dates back to 1915 with Peter L. Jensen's invention of the first loudspeaker. Over the years the Jensen family of brands has grown to include Jensen, Advent, Acoustic Research (AR), Phase Linear and NHT Loudspeakers (Now Hear This) in the United States and Magnat and Macaudio in Germany.
1947 – JBL has a 15" speaker (38 cm), model D-130, using for the first time a 4" (100 mm) voice coil in a speaker cone; 1949 – James. B. Lansing dies of suicide; William Thomas became president of the company; 1954 – The 375 compression engine is the first 4-inch engine sold; its response extends to 9 kHz